Data Management News & Articles

Data integration is all relative. With Equivio's announcement of a new integrated version of its near-duplicates and email threads technology within kCura's review platform, Relativity, it really is.

Each year, e-Discovery thought leaders and vendors offer up their predictions for the coming year. Already we’ve seen e-Discovery 2012 according to Daegis. Since then, we’ve talked with a few more in an effort to round out the themes that companies will be facing in the new year.

Earlier this year, Science Express published researchers’ calculations of the world's total technological capacity in an effort to determine how much information humankind is able to store, communicate and compute. What they found indicated that humankind is able to store at least 295 exabytes of information. It’s unclear how much of that information accounts for redundancy or duplication, however.

Dashboards are an effective way of monitoring data and web information, but what if your current product doesn't provide reporting or a dash? ReportsMaestro could have the answer.

This week there has been a whole spate of new releases in the world of GRC, most of which -- unsurprisingly -- have been focused on better security. There have also been a couple of acquisitions as well as increasing interest in services and cloud computing.

Partnerships are designed to be strategic, but not always collaborative. Until now. Kraft Kennedy and Equivio (news, site) have come together to provide technology and consulting.

eDiscovery and storage solutions provider Digital Reef (news, site) has announced its new president and CEO.

Bob Lentz, an established veteran of the technology industry will lend his experience with growing innovative startups in highly competitive market segments in an effort to oversee and market Digital Reef's success. Effective immediately, Mr. Lentz will assume the presidency and role of CEO allowing Digital Reef's founder Steve Akers the time to spend on product innovation, while assuming the role of CTO.

Lentz sees data management as a priority, saying that "unstructured content represents both the lion’s share of enterprise data and the most difficult data management challenge.” Digital Reef offers a data management platform, offering many eDiscovery solutions that can be used across a wide variety of platforms and environments. Additional solutions include data discovery for risk mitigation, compliance and automated data discovery and classification tools that enable storage reclamation.

Over the past few months, Digital Reef launched the Digital Reef Partner Program, which makes unstructured data management more accessible to companies that can complement their services with Digital Reef technology solutions. With FAST, Mimosa and EntropySoft among the featured partners, customers will be looking to Mr. Lentz to provide the leadership necessary to promote and support forthcoming partnerships.

Here at CMSWire, we look forward to seeing what Mr. Lentz will bring to Digital Reef's expansive data management solutions.

There are many ways for an organization to save money in these troubled times (yes, we will mention the bad economy yet again). They can cut spending on marketing for one.  The problem is, this is the time when money spent on marketing is probably more critical than ever. You just have to spend the money in the right place.

According to Reality Digital CEO Cynthia Francis, social media is the right place to spend those marketing dollars and she says their SaaS solution will give you much more bang for your buck.